This exercise estimated competitiveness for the 32 federal states of Mexico taking into account production, productivity, employment and wages in 82 activities representing 95% of total GNP. There are two types of states. The dozen of competitive states are more diversified and show higher...

Procampo was launched in 1994 to help the transition from low productivity activities to high productivity activities, among other policy objectives. We investigate the effects of Procampo on migration flows from Mexico to third countries (mainly the US), and the employment dynamics in the...

This paper evaluates convergence of per capita GDP among the Mexican states. The paper attempts to make two important contributions to the literature on convergence in México. First, it is used a yearly data base for a relatively large time span which allows the use of a time series approach...

This paper studies how an information mechanism that labels defectors can sustain cooperative behavior in communities containing a subset of short-run players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma game. The paper presents sufficient conditions for a sustainable...

This paper analyzes the technical efficiency in the Mexican manufacturing sector in which determinants and changes of the efficiency since NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) are studied using the Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Analysis in its time-invariant and time-variant versions,...

Although there exist the conditions and reasons to let Pemex become a trully state owned, commercialy oriented, oil company, in reality Pemex does not behave as such, due to the limitations posed by its legal framework. Such legal framework poses severe limitations to Pemex’s capacity in...

Econometric models under complete information environment with game theoretic foundations are used in this work to analyze husband and wife labor force participation in Mexico. A mechanism of equilibrium's selection was designed in the context of multiple equilibria, in order to identify the...

En lugar de resumir las numerosas y valiosas opiniones que se vertieron en el interesante debate sobre el TLC, me gustaría destacar algunos puntos específicos. / Aun si los resultados obtenidos hasta ahora con los modelos de EGC no son sorprendentes, este trabajo debería continuar. Por lo...

La iniciativa para establecer un Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Canadá, Estados Unidos y México es la propuesta de política económica internacional más audaz y original que se ha discutido entre estos tres países. Como es natural, alrededor de ella se ha generado un enconado debate, tanto...